California Accidentally Posts 14,000 Social Security Numbers

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California's Medicaid health-assistance program, Medi-Cal, told
customers this week that it had accidentally published the Social
Security numbers of 14,000 individuals affiliated with the
program.

The highly personal information, which also included names, care
information and home addresses, remained up on a government site
for at least nine days before it was removed on Nov. 14, Kaspersky's Threatpost blog reported.

California law obliges state agencies to notify affected
residents when data
breaches occur. If the breach impacts more than 500
Californians, agencies must also disclose the breach to the state
attorney general.

Those affected will be provided with credit-monitoring services
from Experian.

Recently, California has seen at least two other data breaches
that affect the medical community.

A May data breach at the Department of Social Services exposed
the
personally identifiable information of 750,000 persons. Last
year, a smaller breach at IHSS leaked the personal information of
2,400 beneficiaries.